Eastern Sun, 9 December 1970

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Total Pages: 23
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    Lock icon Pop singer slashed for a gangster
    327 2 A pop guitarist, Henry Chan Che an Hua, 16. was mistaken for a member of a rivol gang and killed during a gang clash, the Coroner's Court was told yesterday. Chan, a nr-ember of the pop group "On and Off", was slashed to death
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    Lock icon S'PORE TEAM TO YMCA WORKSHOP
    195 2 A six-man delegation from the YMCA will leave tomorrow for the South East Asian YMCA Leadership Development Workshop held in Indonesia from December 10 to 19. The Hon. General Secretary, Mr. Yong Ngim Djin will head the delegation comprising Messrs. Lim Seng Kok, Koh Joon
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    Lock icon Canada to help set up a $9.5 m vocational Institute
    228 2 Aa agreement to set up a $9.5 million vocational institute known as Iskif Morah Voce* tional Institute was signed yesterday morning. The signatories were the Canadian High Commissioner Mr. John Q. Hadwen and the Director of Technical Education. Singapore. Mr.
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    Lock icon Old tyre for new
    113 2 Three students, two of them Taiwan citizens. yesterday pleaded guilty to s charge of unlawfully "trading" a wheel from their car for a newer wheel from another car parked at Goodwood Park Hotel. The y are brothers Wen Tl Shan. 23. and Wen Yi Shih. 21.
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    Lock icon Memoirs on the air
    97 2 Field Marshal Sir Gerald Tern pier can be heard in the BBC World Service on Dec. 14 at 11.45 p.m. with a repeat on Dec. 17 at 5.15 pm. He was High Commissioner and Director of Operations during the Emergency from 1952 to 1954 in Malay
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    Lock icon New A.E.B. course
    92 2 A new coarse In confectionary designed (or housewives and career Women will be organised by the Adult Education Board commencing on Saturday Jan. S3. The course Is for women who wish to make their own confectionery during special or festive occasions. and will be held from 2
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      247 2 SINGAPORE SWEEP licket No. *****32 won the first priae of $400,000 In the Singapore 3weep drawn last night The second prize of *****33 *****44 *****62 *****56 *****44 *****71 $150,000 went to ticket *****37 *****84 *****30 *****30 *****49 *****74 N* 1I7~)648 while *****30 *****32 *****84 *****57 *****84 *****09 NA *****06 *****58
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    Lock icon BETTER LIFTS FOR ESTATES
    383 3 'PHE Housing and Development Board is acting to improve efficiency and safety in lifts used in its housing estates. The Board is now considering measures to block up the six-inch gap between the lift car and the lift shaft on all floors except the lift landings.
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    Lock icon Died after 17 months
    61 3 A labourer who had head injuries after a falling pole struck him died 17 months later in hospital, a Coroner's Court was told yesterday. Koh Cheng Huat, 62, Injured on June 22 last J ear was warded at three ospitais until he died on November 21
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    Lock icon Inspired by free Singapore
    106 3 SEOUL A North Korean boatswain who defected said he was inspired by freedom in countries like Singapore. Sung-Kun Lee, 39, who escaped from his 5.000-ton North Korean cargo boat in Hong Kong last Thursday, said until his visits to Singapore and Hong Kong, he did not
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    Lock icon Sexy roles made movie star quit
    166 3 Chartto Rio fought a losing battle trying to avoid being labelled M Bei Symbol of the Filipino Screen." She walked out on the film industry and a hicratiVf career as an actress, wfeße on the ▼err thresh hold of success Figure The trouble with
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      133 3 On his way back from San Francisco, Alvin Lee took it easy. On a beach in Honolulu. Coming back from Ssn Francisco, Alvin Lee took the easy way out. And had plenty of kicks along the way, in Hong Kong and Honolulu. BOAC took care of everything, from th# flying
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      30 3 Around town 10.00 a.m. Exhibition by "Six Young Contemporaries". at Tang Chou Art Gallery and Framers, Outran Park. 6.00 p.m. Shaw Organisation's annual trade fair at New World Amusement Park.
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    Lock icon Over 1.000 'hard hats' at hotel party
    215 4 Tif ORE than 1,000 "hard hots" mossed at an uncompleted hotel in Scotts Road yesterday. In America, their counterparts are famous for their hip-pie-busting incidents. Htwnrer, there were no s k a 11 cracking during this occasion except goodwill and genial chatter at
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    Lock icon $600m BUDGET ON ELECTRICITY SUPPLY
    132 4 Singapore will spend $6OO million in the next 5 years on electricity supply, announced Dr. On* Swee Law. Chairman of the Public Utilities Board. He was addressing a symposium on electricity supply organised by the British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers* Association on Monday night. He
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    Lock icon SYMPOSIUM TO COMBAT DRUGS
    119 4 A symposium aimed at curbing drug taking in Singapore has been organised by the Catholic Social Guild. Experts will speak on the dangers of drug addiction at the Marymount Convent, Thomson Road, on Saturday. Polite The speakers Include Professor J. E. Gardiner. Professor of Pharmacol logy.
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    Lock icon 2 YEARS' JAIL FOR THEFT
    57 4 A restaurant worker, Ganapathi Menapan 23. waa sentenced to two year*' jail after he pleaded guilty yesterday to four chargei of houafr-breaktaf and theft. Tile details of two charges were read out by ASP R. San dash am. In the First District Court. Oanapathi was
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    Lock icon $500,000 glass chandelier for new local hotel soon
    117 4 A 1500.000 glass scalptore (above) will be Installed In the main foyer Of the 40 storey Mandarin Hotel The latter will be Opened in May next fear. The structure Is the work o| Vcnini of Ven- ice. an internationally famed glass decor.
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    Lock icon MOCK EMERGENCY GAMES FOR W. MALAYSIA
    236 5 XUALA LUMPUR Mock ncidents will be created in all the states of West Malaysia during a three-day joint police /military public order exercise, code-named Pox Daftar, to be held from Dec. 15 to 17. A statement from the Royal Malaysia Police Headquarters here yesterdoy
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    Lock icon NEW M/CYCLES FOR THE POLICE
    88 5 Forty crates marked "Interpol" containing fast Norton motorcycles were off-loaded from a cargo ship at the Port of Singapore Authority. The nine-ton consignment arrived on board the cargo-liner M Ben Vraicke" which left Southampton on its Far East ran on No- vember 1. According to
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    Lock icon Govt, to aid the SMR smallholder
    252 5 KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Government has decided to set up corporation to assist rubber smallholders participate under the Standard Malaysian Rubber scheme so as to maximise their earnings. The Prime Minister and Director of Operations, Tun Abdul Razak, yesterday announced the formation of the
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    Lock icon Your career
    25 5 Mr. Tan Cheng Lim, Secretary to the Vocational Guidance Steering Committee, will give a talk on "Choosing Your Careei today at 3 o^n.
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    Lock icon Time to cut the dead wood
    118 6 SAIGON Vice-Presi-dent Nguyen Cao Ky returned to Saigon yesterday and declared that It was time for the South Vietnamese government to start cutting costs on the deadlocked Pari* peace negotiations. The Vice-President, who Is nominal head of the South Vietnamese delegation in Paris, told
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    Lock icon Reds overrun Govt. posts near airfield in Laos fighting
    294 6 A major Communist offensive hos oyer run a number of strategic government outposts and driven to within six miles of the airfield at the royal capital of Luang Prabang, a military spokesman reported Monday. Defence Ministry spokesman Gen. Thong Than Knocksy
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    Lock icon Cameraman tells of his captivity
    147 6 PHNOM PENH South Korean trlerision cameraman Yusep Lee who was released by the North Vietnamese after being held captive for 14 day,, said he tore «P his identity cards and pretended not to understand his captors when they interrogated him. Lee who arrived back in
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    Lock icon The 'one up' soldier
    67 6 There is always somebody "One Up" M the other guy, where ever you are. Bifht: A Cambodian soldier carries a heary Chinese machine tun as well as an Ak-47 automatic weapon alone Highway 7. Another trooper os the highway not too far behind him sports a
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    Lock icon Govt. to examine blacklist
    89 6 MANILA The Philip, pines government will shortly begin a D ublic investigation into the blacklisting of some 300 student activities which triggered a protest rally ending in the death of one student, informed Congress sources said yesterday. The blacklisting of th# student activities by a number
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    Lock icon Thai girls tell how they were enticed to H.K.
    194 6 HONG KONG Six young Thai girls testified before a Hong Kong court yesterday how they were forced into prostitution after being allured into Hong Kong with offers of "better salaries and jobs." Said 19-year-old Prapasri Shanhiran, one of the six girls:
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    Lock icon Marine cleared, after second court martial
    215 6 CAMP COURTNEY. Okinawa A U.S. military court Monday rereraed a previous verdict of guilty and found Lance Corporal Ronard V. Johnson, not guHty on ckarge of rape. The acquittal culminated a year of investigation into the case by the New York Daily News, which
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    Lock icon 'My Lai scenes unbelievably gory': witness
    742 7  -  By H. D. Quigg pT. BENNING, Georgia The government has produced a surprise witness who testified that Lt. William L. Calley Jr. fired for on hour at people in a My Lai ditch and shot point-blank a young Vietnamese woman who was trying to
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    Lock icon Warnings of the cyclone not heeded
    369 7 WASHINGTON Seventy per cent of Hie itcent East Pakistan cyclone and tidal wave victims could hare been saved if tfccy had heeded storm warnings, an official of the League of Red Cross Societies said on Tuesday. Kit Warms, ViceChairman of the League recently toured
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    Lock icon U.N. asked to flay Lisbon's 'war' in Guinea
    171 7 UNITED NATIONS Five Afro-Asian countries yesterday seemed set to obtain Security Council condemnation of Portugal for an attack on the West African Republic of Guinea last month. A UN. fact-finding mission to Guinea last week reported that it considered Portuguese forces wer
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      61 7 50uT8f49 From 6th to 27th December 1970 TOMORROW'S DRAW NOt 98/70 JACKPOT i i The other group proaa *mm M tame plus free entry for 3 circle* correct $5OO/WIU. BK MfLD AT THf NKW WORLD A MUSIMINT PARK, VABICTY SHOW STACf AT 7.45 P.M. PRIZES FOR CHRISTMAS LUCKY DRAWS ARC
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    431 8 2 RUSSIAN SPY PLANES IN HAVANA WASHINGTON Two Soviet TU95 Ions -range reconnaissance planes have flown into Havana after non-stop flights from Moscow, the Defence Department disclosed. It was not known whether their arrival was connected with Moscow's stepped-up naval operations in Cuban waters. A Soviet diesel-powered
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    Lock icon U.N. troops to stay in Korea
    166 8 YORK The United Nations' General Assembly has reaffirmed the U.N.'s military and diplomatic presence in South Korea. Adopting a resolution recommended by its main Political Committee, the 127-nation Assembly restated that its objectives were "to bring about by peaceful means the establishment of a
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    Lock icon TREASURE AT YOUR FEET
    130 8 Ancient mosaics, walls columns, statues and even a street... all have been found right under the very noses of the Italians. Rome has discovered more ruins right in the centre of town mid-way between the Fountain of Trevi and Via Veneto. Workers are now digging cautiously
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    Lock icon Greece gives in
    41 8 ATHENS The Greek Government is now ready to yield to the demands of shipping tycoons Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos for a revision of their investment deals. However they must deposit the guarantees called 'or by their contracts.
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    Lock icon Bonn-Warsaw economic ties after treaty
    248 8 WARSAW West Germany and Poland yesterday looked to future economic links after signing a treaty to normalise relations for the first time since World War Two. This was expected to be a likely topic at a formal meeting yesterday between West German Chancellor Willy Brandt
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    Lock icon $4,060 FINE, JAIL FOR POLLUTION
    204 8 KLEVE, West Germany A Hamburg shipping line owner has been given an eight-month suspended prison sentence and fined Ss4 r o6o at the end of West German's first water pollution trial. Dr. Juergen Bernhold, 36-year-old owner of the Hamburg Lloyd Line, was convicted of negligence
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    Lock icon BANGKOK'S BORDER PROBLEM
    635 10 fOMMUNIST guerrilla activity in Thailand is much more complicated than would appear by reading reports in newspapers In the southern provinces, bordering on Malaysia, there are a number of terrorists operating on both sides of the border who can be labelled as followers of Chin Peng and
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    Lock icon A NEW WESTERN
    578 10  -  By Art Buchwald WASHINGTON "I've got itl l\e got it! Som Craftsmen yelled as ho rushed Into the office of Darryl Kleigfoot, the heod of Metro-Mogul studios. "What have you got?" Kleigfoot said, slightly annoyed. "An idea for a new cowboy picture. It's the greatest tning since
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    Lock icon U.S.S.R. more democratic than the West-Pravda
    217 10 MOSCOW, The Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda has praised Soviet democracy over its western counterpart and said civil rights were an iUusion in the capitalist world. In an editorial marking Constitution Day, Pravda quoted a saying of Lenin, founder of the Soviet State, that
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    Lock icon QUOTATION
    24 10 A man has to live with himself and he should see to it that he always has rood company. Charles Evans Uufhes. jurist.
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    Lock icon Lift accident
    269 10  -  LIM YEN LAN Legal Officer (Estates) Housing Development Board. We refer to your report entitled "Lift Death Plunge" on page 1 of the Eastern Bun of Tuesday Ist Dec. The Housing St Development Board has Investigated the allegations contained In this report and we wish to state that
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      56 10 foreign new* and featurfs appearing In all editions of the Eastern Sun and The dun are from. Keuterk. United Preaa International, A|(nft France Presse Kdltors Press Syndicate. Newspaper Enterprise Association. Publisher- Hall Syndicate. Los Angeles Times Syndicate. C.enilnl News Service, North American Newspaper Alliance, First Features. Inter-Press Features and The
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    Lock icon INDONESIA'S OIL BOOM SAVES THE ECONOMY
    1389 12/13  -  The oil men continue moving in From Joseph Gallasay and Isa Ismail JAKARTA Oil to fuel the economic rebirth of Indonesia is pouring out of the ground at the rote of one million barrels a day. President Suharto inaugurated in October the country's first
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    Lock icon Every Javanese farmer loves his turtledove
    563 12/13  -  By T. C. Kemasang Jakarta Ever* morning in millions of Javanese homes a •mall but important ehore is performed. The man of the house steps out on the front porch with a rattan cage in his hands, checks the weather and then ties the
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    Lock icon Cycle accident downs him
    898 14  -  by HUGH DOWNS CAVE CREEK, Ariz. (NEA) Thfw'i no ruion for it to happen. It's a clear day, the end of an 30-mile routine trip. I'm within two miles of home. I've cut my speed in haJf because of the 35-mile limit in the little town
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    Lock icon There's money in Australian coins
    274 14 SYDNEY The first coins struck in Australia were actually counterstamped. They consisted of 40,000 Spanish dollars sent out to relieve a currency shortage in the colony of New South Wales. The centre of each was punched out. The outer circle was stamped "five shillings" on
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    Lock icon Sleep with window closed; keep out polluted air
    497 14  -  By LAWRENCE E. LAMB Dear Dr Lamb —ls there any real benefit in sleeping with the window open In the winter? Dear Reader Not really. I suspect that idea originated when rooms were filled with smoke from open fires and pot-bellied stoves.
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    Lock icon Boost for prodigies
    162 14 LONDON A campaign to develop the talents of Britain's most promising young musician* has started here. The call for a national effort to look after child prodigies li supErted by Mr. Alan Wilms, Labour Party opposition spokesman on higher education, and follows recent cases of local councils
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  • POPPING AROUND WITH PLATTER PETE
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      Lock icon Benny, Quests retain title
      703 15 RESULT OF PLATTER PETE'S 1970 POP POLL HI THERE! Today, we're giving you the second half of the results of our poll comprising the LOCAL SECTION. Though there has been a vast improvement and 'progressiveness' in our musical standards this past year, it is ironic that
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      209 15 ytn ORGANISATION T ORCHARD 3 765 8 8 LAST DAY! I.lft. 4.:m> a B.:m pn> Ko* I'hr noand Of Mbslc Julie Andrew* 70MM Color School SI 00 To Any Seat at 1.15 St 4.30 p.m. Shows OPENS TOMORROW! Pox's "HELLO GOODBYE" Michael Crawford Color CATHAY -***** LAST DAY! II am
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      229 15 i. i i» n .17.V11 i Last Day! No Krr« List! II am. I.4ft, I. «.M A ft.lft U Chine "UNO EAGLE" (A BHAW PRODUCTIONI Mandarin in Scope, Color OPENS TOMORROW I "Cettoa Csari To Harlem" Color (United ArtUUI AI'IIOI J I» 7 C, LAST DAT! II aa. 14ft, C.M
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    Lock icon Clean-up campaign
    116 16 BEOUL President Chung-Hee Park has ordered his government to act to protect children from worsening school surrounding* in cities. A recent survey by the Seoul City Education Board found nearly 2.000 sidewalk shops near secondary schools here, se ling undesirable comle strips or Insanitary food. Some two million
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      790 16 aiies im taurus gemtm EMlfil cancer zw r-i 35 w I P sli CARROLL RIOHTER'S GENERAL TENDENCIES: Get Into the practical phases of your existence now and make those changes that can bring you considerable more security as well as better operative skill in attending to your obligations, collections. Influential
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      18 16 "What do you mean rabbit punch? I just gave her a pat on the back for win* ning!"'
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      1077 17 today's tekvBn EEHH2 CHANNEL 5 H $*****11 V?^WMr. MMMSf P.M 3.00 Opening Announcements, followed by HOUSEWIVES' MATINEE —"My Son, My Son" (Part 1 of a Cantonese film) (English Subtitles). 3.35 FOR THE FAMILY A magazine series in Chinese 4.10 A DIARY OF EVENTS IN SINGAPORE THIS WEEK (Chinese) 4.15 DAYS
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    Lock icon They keep the world laughing
    645 18 It needs funny people to make a funny world. The world Is composed of all sorts of people, fcaeh has his own characteristic. We have the serious, the stupid, the rood, the had, the intelligent and so on. Finally, we must not forget the most
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    Lock icon How you can help Singapore
    531 18 AS a citizen of a country, it is one's duty to serve his or her country well. As civilised Singaporeans. we should stand on our feet and do whatever we can without being directed to do so. Young and old. male or female, can play
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    Lock icon Dirty old men can be a problem
    515 18  -  DATELINE By Ele and Wall Dulaney DEAR ELE and Walt: Last week I went for my dance class and when I came oat there was a man standing outside. I walked two blocks to the bus stop and he walked right behind me.
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    Lock icon Typewriting classes
    69 18 The Adult Education Board announces that registration Is now open to those who wish to Join the Board's typewriting classes (Roman type) for beginners. Classes wi;i be conducted from Mondays to Saturdays at No. 9. Fort Canning Road, Singapore The tuition fee per month Is $3.00. All those
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      187 18 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe The Eastern Sun's essay writing contest for boys and girls ol 14 and under (Junior)i end boys end girls over 14 (Senior) appears in this page from Monday to Friday. Ptlae money Is: $lO tot Senior* and $5 tor luniors tor every eway published All
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  • WOMEN
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      Lock icon THEIR presents can betray YOUR image
      986 19  -  By Liz Sherry QNE miserable Christmas years ago I was horrified to receive books as presents from every one of my friends and relatives. Now, I love books, but from everyone? Did I appear only as a bookish young woman, without frills or feminine
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      Lock icon TOO TENDER AN AGE TO HEAR ALL THIS
      436 19  -  ANN LANDERS HEAR ANN: Tre been sitting here trying to figure out how to tone down the language so you can print my letter. I've decided there Is no way without destroying the sense of what I want to say. so I'm
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    Lock icon Gains made at stock market
    327 20 FIEARER shares registered respectable gains as they continued to attract better bids and investment support in the rooms of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. Trading in other industrials were selective. Business was mainly confined to issues recently lifted from restricted dealings and newly quoted shares. Star
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    Lock icon Rubber 52 1/4 cts
    241 20 December first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 52-1/4 cents per lb., down 1/2 cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was slightly easier. The market was featureless for the morning and fluctuated narrowly around
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    Lock icon TIN PRICE
    14 20 The tin price for yesterday was $640.50 per picul down 50 cents.
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    Lock icon Trade bill protested by Canada
    172 20 OTTAWA Canada has urged the Nixon administration to resist "protectionist pressures" and oppose the present trade legislation before Congress, according to two diplomatic notes made public Monday. The notes, dated July 13 and Nov. 6, outlined Canada's opposition to the trade legislation. The same arguments
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    114 20 HONG KONG Yesterday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Buyers) (Sellers) 190 197 per 100 Straits dollars 146 148 per 1.000 Taiwan dollars §.70 0.775 per Australian dollar 340 300 per 1.000 Burmese fcyats 460 480 per 1.000 Indian rupees 168 162 per
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    Lock icon CLOSING PRICES
    686 20 BID and offer prices officially listed at the close of business In the Singapore and Kuals Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterday INDUSTRIALS Acma 123 1.30 AJinomoto Alcan 1.82 1.27 2.00 1.32 Allied Choc 2.55 2 64 Ben, .88 90 Berjaya 1.82 103 Borneo xd 1.58
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    Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
    703 20 BUSINESS done tn and reported to 'he trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS ACMA $125 (3); Alran $l2B <2) Bcrjaya $lO3 (3) $lO2 (3); DIM $lO4 <1);
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    Lock icon PRODUCE
    87 20 THE noon prices at the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange yesterday waa> a Corunot Oil (f.o.b.) bulk fti.oo Coconut Oil (f.o.b drum 93.80 Mixed copra M.fit Muntolt VVblta Pepper f.o.b.) AS TA 100% N.WL. 182 .AO Sarawak White Pepper if.o.b) 96% N W.L 192.50 Sarawak Special Black Pepper If.O.lM M«%
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    Lock icon SYDNEY MINE SHARES SLIDE
    320 21 SYDNEY Mining shores slumped in o despondent day's trading on Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. A few speculative* were supported early in trading but these failed to stop Hie eventual drift in the afternoon. As the day progressed speculatives. heavyweights and established miners all slowly declined .under
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    554 21 AKKIVAL8 14ft i.m MSA 1*5 Koala l.ompor 140 a m. MSA 121 Koala l.umpur 130 a m MSA 452 Kuala Lumpur 11 OA a m MSA 454 IN* liana Kuala Lumpur 1140 am. MSA COS Jakarta 140 p.m. MSA 451 Koch. Bs 1.06 p m MSA 041 Kola
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    Lock icon TAN TO ATTEND LOS ANGELES CONFERENCE
    93 21 Mr. Tan Chee Chye. Director of World Express and President of the Singapore Travel Agent Association, has been appointed Regional Manager, Southeast Asia, of Williams, Dimond International, international travel sales representatives, and will attend the company's first worldwide sales conference this month in Los
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    36 21 NEW YORK Dow Jones closing averages Monday on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 818.66 20 Rails 158.10 15 Utilities 118.99 65 Stocks 262.40 40 Bond s 67.89 Commodity futures index 145.03 off 0.01
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    Lock icon U.S. economy uptrend noted
    513 21 NEW YORK Despite gloomy reports on industrial production and employment in October, an upturn in Hie economy is expected now that a settlement has been reached in the General Motors strike. First National City Bank said today. "There U a good chance' the pickup in business
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    Lock icon FLYING START
    75 21 Here* a a marriage thai got off to a flying start, "Freshly-wed*" Rolf and Jutta Neumann rode a white coacta direct from the Altar to Hamburg airport where they took silver 741 on their honeymoon flight to Munich. Recently Lufthansa Invited throe newly* wed couples from each of
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    Lock icon "He is the best man I've fought" —CLAY
    252 23 NEW YORK— Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) described Oscar Bonavena at the greatest fighter he had met after he stopped the powerful Argentinian in the last round of their 15-round at Madison Square Garden here Monday night. Clay, who dropped Bonavena for two
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    128 23 NEW YORK "I'm not ready yet for Joe Fratier I think I'll need another fight before the world championship" deflared Cassius Clay. after the fight in which he defeated Argentinian Oscar Ronavena in the last ro'id. However, he soon recovered and said a few words In praise of his
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    Lock icon FINAL ROUND TKO VICTORY FOR CLAY
    687 23 NEW YORK After being given the fight of his life for 14 rounds, former world heavyweight champion Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) lashed out with a furious assault in the 15th and final round to stop Argentina's Oscar Bonavena in their non-title bout at Madison
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    Lock icon Labour troubles disrupt life right across the UK
    164 24 LONDON Labour troubles, in the form of power cuts and strikes, disrupted life across Britain yesterdaj. Millions breakfasted In darkness aad shivered In their chilly homes for the second day running because of a co-slow by the -150,000 workers in the nationalised
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    Lock icon NO MEDICAL AID FOR 200 WOUNDED TROOPS
    365 24 I>MNOM PENH About 200 wounded Combodion soldiers ore lying bleeding of the scene of fierce fighting northeost of Phnom Penh becouse no helicopters ore oyoiloble to rescue them, military sources soid yesterday. Field reports that o Combodian battalion, besieged by North Vietnamese at
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    Lock icon Manhunt for Swiss envoy
    90 24 RIO I)E JAN MHO Military security officers studied alleged ransom notes yesterday while police Intensified their efforts to locate the Swiss Ambassador to Brazil, Giovanni Enrico Bucher (above). He was kidnapped on Monday by a daring band of terrorists as he was driven to work. One
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    Lock icon Left-wingers score well in Pakistan polls
    203 24 KARACHI The left-wing People's Party led by former Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and the Awami League of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman forged ahead yesterday in results of Pakistan's first one-man-one-vote general elections yesterday. Pakistan Radio reported that Bhutto's party had won 60 out of
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    Lock icon Taiwan may curb imports from Japan
    165 24 TAIPEI Nationalist China said yesterday import controls may be placed on Japanese roods to try to close the widening trade gap between the two countries. Economic Affairs Minister Sun Yun-Suan said the Taipei government is working closely with Tokyo to remedy the situation. But
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    79 24 BANGKOK Malay, jian and Thai officials will meet soon to discuss erecting new boundary stones along their common border, Thai interior UnderSecretary Puang Buwannarat said yesterday. He did not say where tiie meeting would t* held. Malaysia and Thailand would also set up boundary buoys
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